Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
Are you feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from your body, or stuck in cycles of stress and trauma? Healing Her Story is here to guide you from feeling lost, isolated, and exhausted to feeling empowered, grounded, and deeply connected to yourself.
This transformative podcast dives into trauma recovery, somatic healing, creativity, and the profound wisdom of trauma-informed menstrual cycle awareness. Each episode offers practical tools, inspiring stories of resilience, and insightful conversations to help you reconnect with your body, break free from societal expectations, and align with your natural rhythms.
If you're ready to shift from surviving to thriving, join us as we illuminate the path toward healing, empowerment, and wholeness. It’s time to rewrite your story and embrace the life you deserve.
Start your healing journey today with Healing Her Story—a podcast created for women, by women, who are reclaiming their power.
Healing Her Story with Riva Jean-Paul
(REPLAY) How to Use Writing as a Tool for Emotional Healing with Mari Candela
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In this conversation, Riva and Mari explore how poetry and journaling can help you process emotions, integrate difficult experiences, and reconnect with parts of yourself that may have gone quiet.
Mari shares her healing journey, and how writing became a structured way to access feelings she couldn’t speak out loud - and what happened when she lost that ability.
In this episode, you’ll learn:
- Why writing can feel safer than verbal processing
- How poetry bypasses overthinking and connects you to the body
- How putting language to emotion helps the brain organize overwhelming experiences
- Simple ways to begin using writing as a healing practice
Studies on expressive writing show improvements in emotional regulation, immune function, and stress resilience. When we give our experiences language, we create containment — and containment creates safety.
If you’ve ever struggled to name what you’re feeling, this episode offers a practical and gentle starting point.
Connect with Mari
Our intro and outro song, Reclamation (Reborn), is an anthem of remembering.
This song was created as a companion for the healing journey, especially for women reclaiming their voices, their rhythms, and their belonging in a world shaped by patriarchy.
You’re invited to listen, feel, and let the music meet you wherever you are.
Looking for support? Here's how to go deeper:
- Book a Somatic Assessment: Your 75-min 1:1 virtual session to explore what your body is holding and shape a personalized care plan. Book Here
- Free Trauma Recovery Mini-Course: A self-guided intro to trauma recovery and nervous system care. Download Here
- 1:1 and Group Support: Virtual and in-person offerings. Learn More
- Meditations on Insight Timer: Guided practices for nervous system regulation. Listen Here
- Watch Reclamation: A music video and expressive arts project. Watch Here
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